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shira

(30,109 posts)
11. A pseudo-academic study written by 1-state advocates, not neutral academics.
Thu Aug 25, 2016, 05:54 AM
Aug 2016

Yawn.

The whole pseudo-academic report is based on John Dugard's claims of Apartheid. The problem is Dugard is an outright antisemite. Dugard supports Hamas terror as legit resistance. Here's more Dugard:

Dugard says in the report that "common sense . . . dictates that a distinction must be drawn between acts of mindless terror, such as acts committed by Al Qaeda, and acts committed in the course of a war of national liberation against colonialism, apartheid, or military occupation."


No surprise that all BDS sources inevitably (like all stupid rightwingers) blow their cover by acknowledging their support of Hamas "freedom fighters". This is neo-fascism no different than the Nazi goal of murdering Jews in masses. Same shit, different century. It'd be real nice if you could ever once quote from BDS'ers who don't support Jew hating psychopaths like Hamas.

Virginia Tilley lead the study, but Tilley is yet another BDS supporting, 1-state drone who wrote a book on that prior to this study. Not a neutral academic by any means, but neither are any of the other idiotic contributors to this mess.

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As I've written to you previously - and to which you have no reply.....

Israeli Arabs also live, work, study, and/or serve for the IDF in the West Bank. And yet they are not being discriminated against, even though they are of the same race, ethnicity, religion as Palestinians in the W.Bank. There's no "Apartheid" against these Israeli Arabs in the W.Bank. Hmm, go figure...

Your garbage sources don't have an answer to that one, which is simple actually. West Bank Palestinians are not citizens of Israel. The conflict is based on competing nationalities, not racial hatred or ethnicity.

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The OP continued: Little Tich Aug 2016 #1
Because the Palestinians in the occupied territory aren't officially israeli citizens. DetlefK Aug 2016 #2
That's what I call it.. Glamrock Aug 2016 #3
Silly article. The Palestinians could've agreed to their own state many times over the decades.... shira Aug 2016 #4
So would it be more correct to call it a temporary state of Apartheid that has existed for almost 50 Little Tich Aug 2016 #5
It's not Apartheid. We've been over this but you're pretending we didn't. n/t shira Aug 2016 #7
Let's look at the validity of the Apartheid analogy one more time just for the fun of it: Little Tich Aug 2016 #10
A pseudo-academic study written by 1-state advocates, not neutral academics. shira Aug 2016 #11
Oh, what the heck - here's another from Human Rights Watch: Little Tich Aug 2016 #12
And yet, HRW doesn't call it Apartheid. Go figure... n/t shira Aug 2016 #13
They're just describing the "separate but unequal" political "two tier system" that discriminates Little Tich Aug 2016 #14
You should ask HRW why they refrain from using the term 'Apartheid'. shira Aug 2016 #17
Because all Israeli citizens have the same rights regardless of race, religion, or ethnicity oberliner Aug 2016 #6
The OP is about the West Bank, not Israel. n/t Little Tich Aug 2016 #9
No it's not oberliner Aug 2016 #15
Are you using the Chewbacca defense? n/t Little Tich Aug 2016 #16
This message was self-deleted by its author Little Tich Aug 2016 #8
because an occupation between belligerent parties ericson00 Aug 2016 #18
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